Slavic languages and others: name of letters

Hello, are Czech&Slovak the only languages on Earth that have names of letters? I am afraid it does not exist even in the rest of Slavic languages but want to give it a try, so ask you if you have also names for letters similar to the names of numbers what we have discusses earlier.
What am I talking about? Here are the concrete nouns for letters in Czech:
a - áčko
b - béčko
c - céčko
d - déčko
e - efko
etc....
So, e.g.. áčko is a of neuter gender and you can decline it: áčko, áčka, áčku, o áčku, áčkem....

There are a few examples in Polish too, but they are limited to specific range of letters (like, for example, the sizes in clothing). They tend to be of feminine gender. From what I've encountered so far we use:

l - elka (a piece of clothing of size L)
n - enka (when you mark one's absence, for example at school or at work, which comes from "nieobecność" - "absence");
m - emka (size M)
r - erka (an ambulance, which we used to mark with a capital leter R, probably originating from "ratunek"/"resque" (pogotowie ratunkowe));
s - eska (size S)
z - zetka (the colloqiual name for a popular station (Radio Z));

Hello, are Czech&Slovak the only languages on Earth that have names of letters?

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Probably not. As far as I know, all the letters of Greek alphabet have names. In Arabic also. There must be some others too.

Apart from languages, there are systems in which letters have names. This is a famous one. I believe that names are formed in such a way that if you didn't hear the first sound but only the rest of the word (sometimes it happens in radio communication), you will still be able to tell which word/letter it was. Unlike in Czech where "-(é)čko" doesn't say much.

There are a few examples in Polish too, but they are limited to specific range of letters (like, for example, the sizes in clothing). They tend to be of feminine gender. From what I've encountered so far we use:

l - elka (a piece of clothing of size L)
n - enka (when you mark one's absence, for example at school or at work, which comes from "nieobecność" - "absence");
m - emka (size M)
r - erka (an ambulance, which we used to mark with a capital leter R, probably originating from "ratunek"/"resque" (pogotowie ratunkowe));
s - eska (size S)
z - zetka (the colloqiual name for a popular station (Radio Z));

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In my home city fast buses are marked with letters and two of them (bus A and bus F) are called by people aśka and efka.

The letters of the alphabet have names in all languages, but in many languages they are not normally spelt out. For example in English you write "a, b, c" etc., but you pronounce the names as "a, bee, cee" etc.

The letters of the alphabet have names in all languages, but in many languages they are not normally spelt out. For example in English you write "a, b, c" etc., but you pronounce the names as "a, bee, cee" etc.

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Of course, so my question is, is there any other language expect Czech & Slovak which use 2 terms for each letter, i.e. you can say á or áčko, bé or béčko, ef or efko, etc... I hope now all doubts will disappear.

In Russian school classes of the same level are called using letters, if there are more than one (such as 5А, 5Б, 5В). So the pupils of these classes are called ашки (ашники), бэшки (бэшники), etc. Don't know how far it can go, but I heard even of class 2Я...
Besides, many things having separate letters in the name, are shortened to the derivates of these letters by use of suffix -эшка.
Other derivates:
Tram A in Moscow - Аннушка
Tram Б - Букашка
Bus К - кашка
Car BMW - бэха
Car ГазМ1 - эмка.

The nouns áčko, béčko, etc. are NOT used as a spelling alphabet in (radio)telephony (we use Adam, Božena, Cyril,...). Even the Greeks do not use their alphabet as a spelling alphabet (pi is Petros, zeta is Zeus, for example).

In Czech the nouns áčko, ..., zetko denotes objects that are marked with a letter (e.g. classes in a school, pavilions in a hospital, music notes, vitamins, etc.).

Ups, all languages!? Believe it or not Hungarian does not have the thing what the Czechs language does.
I think we will have at least one other answer from Hellas, I wonder if alpha, beta...atc also can indicate things and do they decline it???!!!

Modern Russian does not have names for most letters, it is just A (ah), Б (be) В (ve) etc…
Only a few characters have a separate name, like Й (и краткое – short i); Ь (мягкий знак – soft sign); Ъ (твёрдый знак – hard sign).

Sometimes to distinguish E and Э that have similar pronunciation in some words, Э is called э оборотное (e reversed).

Old Russian had a name for each letter like in Greek: A (az), Б (buki), В (vedi) etc…

I have the impression that the original Encolpius's question was meant some other way....

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I think no one (non-Slavonic members) will understand the issue what the Czech phenomenon describes. It is really HARD to explain & understand phenomenons like it. I remember the Spanish/Portuguese/Hungarian words for a godfather in the godchildren's parents view. If you do not have a WORD it is a tough nut to crack indeed.

If you see a big brown horse in the street what can you say to your child: What is this? What's the name of this animal? Your child will answer: This is a horse.
If you bake a big birthday cake of the shape of the letter A (your son's name is Adam), then the letter A is not a letter any longer, but a THING, a birthday cake, just like a horse or bus, or banknote. Then you can ask your son what's this, and since he has learnt reading at school already, he can say, it is an A [ei]. But English (and many other languages) makes no difference between letters and things resembling letters, while some languages do. Easy as pie. It works with the numbers as well. if the child is 6 years old, you bake a birthday cake of the shape of the number 6, then you do not use the word which you use when counting: one, two, three... but other words.....
On the other hand if you see a picture with a horse and you ask your son what it is. He says: it is a horse. You can answer, yes, you are brave, but you can say, it is wrong, it is not a horse, it is just a piece of paper, a picture, the horse is an animal in the street. Some languages consider things in a different way.